brutalisme achille mbembe

Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, and Afropolitanism

AFRICA: For capitalists, disruption opens the door to new power and new revenues: People, society and nature are reduced to raw material. Author Achille Mbembe’s horizon is always the broadest possible – the cosmic, earth-historical, and planetary. Despite all the harrowing problems, Africa is conjured up as a vibrant world centre that still has power in reserve, teeming with wildlife, and a wealth of cultures.

Straff Øystein Mamen

Respectful and lovingly humorous

REHABILITATION: In black and white, well-composed images, Øystein Mamen follows four men in Halden prison. All inmates have committed particularly serious crimes. He shows what recognition and charity can do to people.

In the Rearview Maciek Hamela

Still life

UKRAINE: Filmmaker Maciek Hamela provides a singular and emotional snippet of the war as he drives Ukrainians over the border into Poland.

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